So, WANIX server, the high-speed NVMe NAS that all our editors use to edit 4K, 8K video and the like, it's completely full.
Newton server, the mechanical-based vault where we store all our old projects, that's completely full too.
And to make matters worse, our new red weapon camera, capable of recording footage at a whopping 8K resolution,
is also here and capable of filling up its 1TB megs at a rate of up to 300MB per second.
Yes, a 3-second clip that could be as much as 1GB.
Fortunately,
Fortunately, Seagate, oh, there go the rails.
You might say this project's gotten off the rails already.
Fortunately, Seagate and 45Drives have partnered up with us, which means they gave us hardware,
to solve this problem once and for all.
Today, we are installing a petabyte of storage in our freshly renovated server room.
So come along for the ride.
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Hey, guys, so would it be a problem if I shut down the vault for a couple hours?
The vault? Could I shut that down for a couple hours?
Uh, I don't think I...
Lock it down.
We good? We cool?
Throw away the key.
Burn it.
Burn it? No.
Don't burn it.
Burn it onto a sheet.
No.
Why do we even talk to you people?
Why don't we even talk to you people?
Burn it onto a CD.
You brought more RAM.
I like this guy.
So I guess now is a good opportunity to introduce our friends from 45Drives.
So this is Brett Kelly, who is...
What exactly?
I'm an electrical engineer.
Okay.
By education.
And I've been doing just a little bit of everything since I got to 45Drives.
And then this is Nicole, whose last name I forget.
Morrison.
Yes!
Oh, you got it.
Yeah.
I look after the marketing.
Okay.
So here we go.
I did manage to at least open the top of the box.
That is as far as I got.
Yeah.
As far as, um...
Uh...
Look at that documentation that I ruined.
Okay.
So you guys have made some significant changes to the Storinator since the last time that I got my hands on one.
Yes.
Now it has a screen.
It has a screen.
Oh, no, I'm not doing that.
That's yours.
Okay.
I got this.
Oh, yes.
It's stuck.
There you go.
Yes!
Let's see what happens if I unscrew these without, uh...
Hey!
That was fun.
Good catch.
Hey, I drop things all the time.
I gotta be good at catching them.
So now you guys have, like, a tool-less mechanism for the drives now instead of that...
That is correct.
Well, it was tool-less before, but it was kind of like a dumb tool-less.
Yep.
Now it's like a really smart tool-less.
Cool.
So it's like a friction mount.
Yeah.
And in terms of...
Oh!
Wow, it looks like it did get a little bit wanged in shipping there.
Look at that.
I guess we might just have to take a hammer to it.
Nervous chuckles.
Uh...
Linus, can you not hammer our expensive server machine?
Well, now you can do whatever you want to it now.
Yeah, it's yours now.
There we go.
Okay, so what's in here?
So we've got our two rocket carts, Rocket 750 made by High Point.
Yep.
They, uh...
And they connect on to the LCD screen there.
We have a two-port Intel 10 gigabit NIC RJ45 copper.
Okay.
64 gigs of RAM, soon to be 128.
And a much more high-efficient power supply than the one you had last time.
Oh, okay, cool.
Yep.
Hold on, I'll find...
I'll find the rest of them.
Sorry, what's in your boot?
Uh, a couple of screws fell into my boot.
So with our introductions and the unboxing out of the way,
it's time for the most exciting part...
Inventory time!
So you might actually be wondering why we need so much RAM.
And the answer to that question is...
Brett, on his way over here, stopped and doubled up our memory
because, basically, ZFS...
As you add more and more storage to it,
and we're gonna be putting about 400 terabytes of storage
in each of these boxes,
uses RAM as sort of like a, uh...
Uh, like a map to where the data is.
So that's why, all of a sudden, we went from 64 gigs being perfectly acceptable
to really wanting 128 gigs.
So we're gonna have that much in each of our systems.
Oh, did you cut yourself?
Yes.
That's, uh, that happened fast.
We've already, uh, got first blood here.
Yeah, already an injury.
Nice!
A nice knuckle one, too.
So it's always an awkward band-aid, right?
Oh, man.
And it takes forever to heal.
I know, I was going,
Ah, it'll go away, it'll go away.
No.
See, this is why techies don't like sharing their screwdrivers.
I'm putting these screws in by hand.
While this guy over here...
Yeah, you know what, no, fine.
No, just keep it, just keep it, just keep it.
Oh, crap.
Oh, damn it, I can't even find it.
Is that it?
Yeah!
Oh, yay!
Okay, so this sucks.
There's some shipping damage on our server,
so we're gonna have to fix that
before we go move to the fun part of loading it into the server rack.
It's like, I'm sure proto-cases like metalworking engineers are...
rolling in their graves.
They're not even dead yet,
they're rolling in their graves watching me work on metal.
Does that not look pretty straight right there?
Yeah, that's right.
See, I may not be good at doing things properly,
but I'm good at doing things the crappy way.
Now, you might be thinking to yourself,
Gee, Linus,
this server sure doesn't have a lot of hard drives in it.
To which I would reply,
Baby, I am the hard drive.
And then everyone would groan and cringe and all that,
and then I would give you the real response, which is,
We're not ready to put the hard drives in yet,
because these XL60 Storinators can weigh frickin' what?
Like 100 pounds, probably, with 60 drives in them?
Yeah, you do not want to move these around full.
So we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna install the drives
once they're already on the rails.
We switched jobs this time, right?
I was the feeder before.
Were you?
Yeah.
Oh, I didn't notice.
Oh, here, yeah, I can do that for you.
Yeah, that makes more sense.
There we go.
Yep, we're working this snake together.
See, it didn't feel dirty until I said that, did it?
So, yeah, so you pull and I feed.
There we go.
I get how this works.
Wait, no, that's not right.
No, no, no.
No, what's going on here?
We're doing this backwards.
This is my end.
Are you sure?
I know what the problem is.
It goes this way.
Brilliant.
Okay, and now we've got it backwards.
You were the fuller.
There we go.
There.
I'm glad we got this sorted out.
We're just keeping them all straight, though.
It's way easier this time.
I'd have hated for this to get embarrassing.
You've got to learn to be real good at catching.
Okay, this is starting to worry me now a little bit.
This water-cooled server has to move to the bottom of the rack.
In the event that there's a leak, the last thing we want it to do is nuke $50,000 worth
of enterprise-grade Seagate hard drives, not to mention the Storinators.
I actually want to move these existing Storinators up to put Petabyte Project at the very bottom
networking cables here, heavy hard drives here, because I like them bottom-heavy, baby.
You've seen my wife.
I clearly don't like them top-heavy.
Are you good?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I'm good.
It's like he thinks he's here to install Petabyte Project.
He's actually just helping me do server room maintenance.
I got this side.
Yeah, I got as much of this side as I can.
Cool.
Look at that.
That's not so bad.
Smooth.
Good.
Server room crap with Linus and Brad.
Oh, my gosh.
Use the bottom server as a shelf for the top server.
No problem.
So, update time.
We have Delta 1 and Delta 2 servers deployed.
We've got our network configuration all set up.
We're running CentOS.
And it is time now to load in one Petabyte of hard drives.
Oh.
You know what?
Let's just take one box at a time.
Here it is.
First drive's going in.
Here it goes.
Oh, that's a tight fit there.
There we go.
Oh, it's in.
Okay.
So, now we just got to do that 97 more times.
Here we go.
I guess it gets less exciting after the first couple.
Yeah.
Really, I turned my back for like five seconds.
I brought the whole system down.
Five seconds.
Okay.
Let's go.
I brought the whole system down.
Five seconds.
Okay.
Let's go.
I brought the whole system down.
Five seconds.
Okay.
Let's just get this stupid thing out of here.
I'll figure out how to get it taped on there properly later.
Okay.
So, hold on.
Let's go all the way back.
Let's start at the beginning.
Okay.
So, all the drives are in.
We're ready to fire it up.
So, first, we take our hard drives and we separate them into VDEVs.
That's correct.
Then, we take those VDEVs and we combine them into ZFS pools.
Yeah.
And the beautiful thing is it's all one command.
It does it for us.
We just tell it what we want to build.
Okay.
So, we take those pools and we divide them up into bricks.
You got it.
And then bricks we use to build up our GlusterFS cluster file system.
You got it.
So, Gluster handles the scaling.
The ZFS layer handles the device failure, all that fun stuff.
So, with Gluster then, we could add more Storinators to have more than a petabyte of data.
That's correct.
Or we could add two more identical Storinators and we could have redundancy.
Yep.
Okay.
Let's get started.
So, it looks like we might have a bunk drive.
Okay.
So, we found the device that's spitting out errors.
It's this guy right here.
So, what we're going to do, just a basic troubleshooting step is we're going to swap it with a drive
that is working.
Device SDAQ again.
So, that's the slot.
Bad cable would be bad.
That'd be really bad.
But, like, that is our farthest off chance.
So, you're thinking card right now.
Right.
It turns out I don't have the right cards here to throw in a replacement if the card
is bad.
But, honestly, that to me looks not as much like a card issue and more like a connection
issue.
So, what we haven't tried yet is just a simple unplug and plug back in at the HBA level.
Yeah.
Well, should I just pop them all and pop them all back in or?
Oh, no.
You know which one it is?
Yeah.
Okay.
We got it.
It worked.
SDAQ is back.
So, the solution was we actually have a port on the card that was kind of bunk.
But, the good news is these are what?
10 ports.
So, these are 40 drive cards.
So, we moved everything over one.
Everything's up and running.
We're ready to rock.
Yep.
You got it.
Okay.
One little thing we have to do.
I thought for a minute there Seagate was going to have a problem.
Yeah.
They were going to have a bad drive in their sponsored video or 45 drives was going to
have a bad port on their case in their sponsored video.
Wouldn't that have been funny?
Yeah.
Hilarious.
Yeah.
It wrote at 3.8 gigabytes a second.
3.8 gigabytes per second.
Check that out.
Count all the places, kids.
3,802,232 kilobytes per second.
Windows reports, even after all the space lost to ZFS, to redundancy, to Gluster, to
solar flares, 778 terabytes of storage.
So, we have effectively more than quadrupled the old space on the vault, which by the way,
was like super done, like super duper done for.
Here's a file move test file.
Here we go.
There's a 10 Gigabyte file.
Yeah, baby.
Those are spinners.
So, let's read off it back to a hardware radar.
You ready?
So, we're reading at a consistent one Gigabyte per second.
Absolutely gorgeous.
So, there you have it.
We're all done.
Petabyte project is complete.
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So all that's left then now is a huge
Thank you to Seagate for providing their petabyte worth of drives and to 45 drives in particular Brett
Thank you very much for coming out and a thank you to you guys for watching if you guys dislike this video
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Which you should totally join now that you're done doing all that stuff. You're probably wondering what to do next
So why don't you leave a comment under the video with what Brett and I did wrong?
Can't read them. I'm just kidding you guys already did that
Okay, you know what Brett Brett Brett Brett?
I actually just had a really good idea. Oh, I don't really need this KVM anymore
So now your boss doesn't have to buy you one
Thank you for coming out
It works reasonably. Well, not as well as my new one button. Thank you, man
You're very welcome. So I guess that's how it works. We just we trade a petabyte for a used KVM switch
That's right. You're the greatest person ever eight ports VGA VGA. I'll get you some cables, too
I don't think I can give you all eight cables though. I got plenty of cables. Oh you do. Yeah
No, no, the proprietary. Oh, yeah, I'll give you a couple